MashableIt's LGBT Pride Month, and there's a lot to celebrate this year — from Caitlyn Jenner's coming out shedding light on transgender issues to Ireland becoming the first country to overwhelmingly approve same-sex marriage. The celebration of these moments, and the celebration of simply being LGBT, culminates at LGBT Pride Parades throughout the nation over the course of June. These parades are notorious — in the best sense, of course — for featuring copious amounts of alcohol, dancing and ferocious flirting.
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PRNewswireNAMIC is now accepting entries for the 2015 NAMIC Excellence in Multicultural Marketing Awards. Among the industry's leading competitions honoring achievements in multicultural marketing, the awards recognize outstanding efforts targeting African American, Asian, Hispanic, LGBT and other diverse segments of the consumer base.

Winners of the Excellence in Multicultural Marketing Awards will be acknowledged during the 29th Annual NAMIC Conference, scheduled for Sept. 29-30 at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York as part of Diversity Week.READ MORE

Target Market NewsLexus is proud to announce the 2015 Lexus Verses and Flow Scholarship is now accepting applications through Sept. 4. Presented in partnership with 10 of the nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities, two students per institution will each be awarded a $5,000 scholarship in recognition of their community leadership and academic excellence.READ MORE

Voice of AmericaJuan Felipe Herrera — the son of migrant farm workers and the author of 28 books of poetry, novels for young adults and collections for children — was named the U.S. poet laureate on Wednesday, the first Hispanic appointed to the position.READ MORE

Target Market NewsBarnes & Noble, Inc., the nation's largest retail bookseller, announced that it is collaborating with the Harlem Book Fair to broaden the platform for authors and publishers into the African-American reader community. B&N will support the Harlem Book Fair with in-store events at the Upper West Side store, located at 2289 Broadway in New York City, from July 14-16, leading up to the nationally recognized literary festival.READ MORE

Multichannel NewsFormer Disney Channel and "The Cosby Show" star Raven-Symoné has been named as a co-host for ABC's daytime talk show "The View," ABC announced Monday. She will replace Rosie O'Donnell on The View effective immediately, joining co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Nicolle Wallace and Rosie Perez.READ MORE

The Straits TimesJudging by the striking number of Asians among journalists that were in Oakland, California, and now here in Cleveland, Ohio, covering this year's NBA Finals, basketball is becoming a major export of the United States. Indeed, America's NBA appears to becoming to Asia what the EPL is to Singapore.READ MORE

WiredTen people appeared onstage at Apple's WWDC keynote in San Francisco this morning — eight men and two women. Two of the men were people of color, both of them musicians — Drake and Abel Tesfaye of The Weekend, who closed out the event with the live performance of a new song. That still means that most of the people onstage were white men. But for Apple at least, the relative diversity of its keynoters was a marked improvement.READ MORE

The Associated Press via ABC NewsIntel is launching a $125 million investment fund for technology startups led by women and minorities, a move the chipmaker says is aimed at changing the face of Silicon Valley. The new fund, which is unusual for its focus on minority-led companies, is part of a broader effort that Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has launched amid widespread criticism of a U.S. tech industry dominated by white male executives and investors.READ MORE

VarietyWhether it's San Diego State professor Martha Lauzen's annual survey of women working in key positions on Hollywood's top box office earners — resulting in woefully low percentages that have remained stagnant dating back to 1998 — or the absence of African-Americans competing in the top categories of this past year's Oscar race, diversity in the movie industry is an issue that simply won't die.

But instead of bemoaning the lack of progress, Stephanie Allain, in her fourth year as director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, has taken the bull by the horns by treating the nine-day event, not to mention its staff, as a kind of Rainbow Coalition.
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NBC NewsA new Kickstarter campaign has launched in order to address the "lack of information and awareness about South Asian American History," according to project organizers. Entitled "Our Stories: An Introduction to South Asian America," the book's mission is to capture and share the stories of important South Asian Americans, many of whom exerted incredible influence over 130 years of American history but who often went unnoticed and unrecorded in history books.READ MORE

Business Wire via Yahoo FinanceAcosta Sales & Marketing, a leading full-service sales and marketing agency in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, and Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America, has released The Why? Behind The Buy™ U.S. Hispanic Shopper Study that provides valuable insights into U.S. Hispanic shopper behavior. As the U.S. Hispanic population grows, this report will help CPG companies and retailers develop marketing strategies to best attract and win with this important consumer segment.READ MORE

Target Market NewsRadio One, Inc. announced the launch of OneX, a branded content studio, which will provide brands with premium content and native advertising opportunities. The mission of OneX is to harness the power of black culture to ignite brands through the creation of compelling content that can thrive across multichannel media environments.READ MORE

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HispanicAd.comShowpitch.com announced the launch of its new digital and online 16-week music talent search competition to determine the next Menudo. Sponsored by the Local Honda Dealer Association and in association with the Telemundo Station Group, "Menudo — En Busca de la Nueva Generación" marks the first time that an entirely new group of Spanish-language teenage music artists will be discovered online and selected as winners through direct social media fan engagement.READ MORE

IndianTelevision.comEros Now has inked an exclusive content acquisition deal with Pakistan's on air and digital content company, Hum TV. The deal gives Eros Now users access to Hum TV's entire library, including the current shows at no extra subscription cost. The deal also gives Eros Now subscribers in India an exclusive opportunity to view the content 48 hours prior to its telecast on any other platform.READ MORE

NBC NewsTwo-thirds of Latinos in the U.S. consider their Hispanic background to be part of their race, a newly released Pew Research Center survey has found. That's the case even though Hispanic is considered an ethnicity by the U.S. Census bureau.READ MORE

HispanicAd.comAzteca America announced that it has signed Nissan as presenting sponsor of the Liga MX Games on Azteca stations through March, 2016 in a total of 27 markets. This deal reflects the Station Group's ongoing efforts to execute national marketing opportunities with local extensions for client partners.READ MORE

MumbrellaIn the first research Roy Morgan has conducted for the Asian market — which does not include mobile internet use — Indonesians were found to watch almost 30 hours of TV a week, accounting for 80 percent of weekly media consumption.
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